Harmonic But Nonharmonic-Sounding

One other curious thing to try is building a tone from absolutely
perfect harmonic pitch relationships, but use only prime-numbered
harmonics. I have built a few such timbres, and they have a surprisingly
bell-like sensation, despite the fact that the partials' strictly-harmonic
pitch relationship is distinctly non-bell-line.

Perhaps Marion M. would attribute that this to its large LCM? (That in
the sense that nonharmonic relationships often have large LCMs as well.)

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